White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Thinned satellite data (PSAT and SPOT), All pseudo-absence/background points, Cropped to 750 m isobath, , evaluated using all metrics

Nowcast and Forecast Maps

Random Forest Nowcast and Forecast

Boosted Trees Nowcast and Forecast

Maxnet Trees Nowcast and Forecast

GAM Nowcast and Forecast

GLM Nowcast and Forecast

Metrics

Metrics by model type

model_type	accuracy	roc_auc	boyce_cont	brier_class	tss_max
rf	0.9675889	0.9929945	0.8306062	0.0315119	0.9679683
bt	0.8197628	0.8387121	0.9450878	0.1323777	0.5075976
maxnet	0.6411067	0.7619866	0.9359977	0.2256542	0.4483415
gam	0.7905138	0.7676591	0.9311707	0.1468715	0.4120944
glm	0.7620553	0.7255304	0.6686995	0.1570495	0.4296294

Variable Importance